As long as we're taking a break from Pesach...
I was reading this article in the Wall Street Journal the other day, and I found myself ticking off the groups as I went. I still confuse Sunni and Shiite, Druze make good neighbors and better citizens, I don't know much about Kurds, Alawites... Hmmm... Alawites? Wait, aren't they insane? Nope. It turns out I was mixing up Alawites with Almohads. Though I was perfectly aware at the time that the group I was thinking of did their piece of insanity in the twelfth century. Still, that qualifies for mistrusting them today, it seems.
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